The current development and deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives could create a new golden era in the global economy. Some say we are in the valley of disappointment with IoT. Others say that the global IoT market is expected to double by 2021, so keeping up with technology advances might be a bigger challenge than you might think. Which is right?

What is changing?

Read on to discover what our robot, Athena, thinks the future of the Internet of Things climate could be, act accordingly, or click any link to read the evidence gleaned from 6.843 reports, articles and PowerPoints from the Web and Social Media in a few seconds.

Read on to discover what our robot, Athena, thinks the future of the Internet of Things climate could be, act accordingly, or click any link to read the evidence gleaned from 6.843 reports, articles and PowerPoints from the Web and Social Media in a few seconds.

Analysis

Systems map: The systems map shows the global influence and many expected impacts of the Internet of Things on other technology advances. The potent mix of the IoT with AI, 5G, the Internet, blockchain etc. present a heady mix of emerging change affecting everyone's future lives.

Radar chart: By 2025, the IoT is likely to be a significant job and economic growth creator, particularly in smart city rollouts, vehicle and aerospace businesses and computing sectors.

Graph-It: And also, by 2025, IoT will combine with AI to provide real-time decision-making on everything from energy use to potential fault reporting, soil health to inventory control, far beyond what is humanly possible today.

Spline (Beta):This shows the aggregated pundit' and expert' view on where the likely future tipping/inflection points and peak will be for the Internet of Things going forward. The chart below shows that the peak for IoT will build up to 2035 when current expectations are that this technological transformation will reach business as usual for the rest of the century.

Emerging Drivers:While digitization and AI are today's top technological driving forces, IoT is forecast to be in the next significant wave of emerging change along with robotics. The combination of these will profoundly change today's world and transform business practices and models everywhere with a huge impact on economic performance.

Sentiment: The arrival of the Internet of Things is seen as very positive but increasing number of pundits and experts have pointed out chances of systems failures and bad actors hacking systems for gain or pure destructive purposes that may kill or injure many people.

Pie Charts: The Pie Charts suggest that the public will embrace the IoT as business as usual from 2038 onwards. Athena records that the IoT is already at 50.4% business as usual with a further 35.9% of probable improvements likely to happen in the next decade. The rewards are great for the major players running into billions and trillions of dollars among them IBM, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Apple and SAP as well as Konux, DHL, Nexiot, Hitachi, Huawei, GE and Rolls Royce.

So, if you haven't yet worked out your future strategy versus the arrival of IoT you are leaving it very late!

Year-on-Year:Almost all sectors will benefit from the introduction of the IoT and almost all major players are now working on their own opportunities and risks.

Heat map: The Heat Map shows the United States and China vying for leadership, primarily in the Information Technology sector. But the United Kingdom sees opportunities in healthcare while India sees an opportunity in construction.

Geography:Athena reports that, geographically the top ten countries likely to embrace the IOT are India, Brazil. United States, UK, Mexico, Australia, China, South Korea, Italy and Sweden.There are some notable absentees here like Canada, Germany and France.

SWOT: Lastly, the SWOT chart, like the previous IoT sentiment analysis shows the aggregate level of opportunities and strengths to vastly outweigh weaknesses and threats.

Visuals
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System map
The systems map shows the global influence and many expected impacts of the Internet of Things on other technology advances. The potent mix of the IoT with AI, 5G, the Internet, blockchain etc. present a heady mix of emerging change affecting everyone's future lives.

Radar
By 2025, the IoT is likely to be a significant job and economic growth creator, particularly in smart city rollouts, vehicle and aerospace businesses and computing sectors.

Graph-It
And, by 2025, IoT will combine with AI to provide real-time decision-making on everything from energy use to potential fault reporting, soil health to inventory control, far beyond what is humanly possible today.

Spline (Beta)
This new representation shows the aggregated pundit' and expert' view on where the likely future tipping/inflection points and peak will be for the Internet of Things going forward. The chart shows that the peak for IoT will build up to 2035 when current expectations are that this technological transformation will reach business as usual for the rest of the century.

Please note the dips in 2027-2029 and 2032-2034 are purely due to the pundits and experts mainly choosing the closest five-year time horizon e.g. 2015, 2030, 2035 for their forecasts and should not be taken as inflection points.

Emerging Drivers
While digitization and AI are today's top technological driving forces, IoT is forecast to be in the next significant wave of emerging change along with robotics. The combination of these will profoundly change today's world and transform business practices and models everywhere with a huge impact on economies.

Sentiment
The arrival of the Internet of Things is seen as very positive but increasing number of pundits and experts have pointed out chances of systems failures and bad actors hacking systems for gain or pure destructive purposes that may kill or injure many people.

Pie Charts
The Pie Charts suggest that the public will embrace the IoT as business as usual from 2038 onwards. Athena records that the IoT is already at 50.4% business as usual with a further 35.9% of probable improvements likely to happen in the next decade. The rewards are great for the major players running into billions and trillions of dollars among them IBM, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Apple and SAP as well as Konux, DHL, Nexiot, Hitachi, Huawei, GE and Rolls Royce.

So, if you haven't yet worked out your future strategy versus the arrival of IoT you are leaving it very late!

Year-on-Year
Almost all sectors will benefit from the introduction of the IoT and almost all major players are now working on their own opportunities and risks.

Heat map
The Heat Map shows the United States and China vying for leadership, primarily in the Information Technology sector. But the United Kingdom sees opportunities in healthcare while India sees an opportunity in construction.

Geography
Athena reports that, geographically the top ten countries likely to embrace the IOT are India, Brazil. United States, UK, Mexico, Australia, China, South Korea, Italy and Sweden.There are some notable absentees here like Canada, Germany and France.

SWOT
Lastly, the SWOT chart, like the previous IoT sentiment analysis shows the aggregate level of opportunities and strengths to vastly outweigh weaknesses and threats.

Evidence
Extracted forecasts found by Athena and linked back to the original articles, reports and PowerPoints (Insights) that she found can be found below using this search term:

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Sources
Athena used the sources below as the top ones to create this report and determined which embedded forecasts are included in this Trend Alert. She found 10.787 forecasts in seconds on 10th January 2018 to allow us to publish this report in less than ninety minutes. She can turn these into PowerPoint slides and Audio files in minutes too as you wish, or we can prepare a full customized and professionally written brief for you to order covering all these forecasts.

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